School: Loughcrew (roll number 6488)
- Location:
- Loch Craobh, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Eibhlis, Bean Uí Sheinchín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 020
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Loughcrew
- XML Page 020
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)to get cured of certain diseases. People who have sore eyes bathe them in the water of the well to heal them.
19. A docken - leaf cures a nettle-sting. You must repeat "Docken Docken cure sting" as you rub the leaf to the rash.
20. If you point 7 gooseberry thorns a a stye on on's eyes repeating each time. "In the name of the Father, son, and the Holy Ghost" and then throw the eighth thorn over your shoulder the stye will be cured.
21. Warts are very ugly to have on your hands, about a year ago Alec Bryans had his hand covered with them, one day Mrs Jenkins said to him. " I will buy those warts from you"so he said "Alright", she said they were her's and gave him a penny for them, a week later there was not a trace of a wart on his hand.
22. There is a man living at fore, he is known as the bone-setter, doctors can(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tommie Gibson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Naper's Dome, Co. na Mí
